“Love’s Worth: A Theological Speculation"

I do not know if I know how to love;

Love truly, wholly, and unstoppably.

So, do I, can I, simply give my heart

To be invested in the treasures God

Creates within the lives he shows to me?

I might not love what God has made of me!

The self I do not love – can it love God?

Some say that God loves all, including me.

The Infinite loves all infinitely.

Because of me alone, may this make God

The infinitely unrequited Lover?

 

(Dennis Evans, September 2022)

 

Thomas Merton: "Thoughts in Solitude: VI"

First week in September 2022, I came across these lines in Merton's "Thoughts in Solitude: VI" and felt amazed and deeply moved by them.